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African American literature

...the most memorable literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance was in narrative prose and poetry, the movement also inspired dramatists such as Willis Richardson, whose
The Chip Woman’s Fortune (produced 1923) was the first nonmusical play by an African American to be produced on Broadway. African American editors such as Charles S. Johnson, whose monthly...

Harlem Renaissance

...Much influenced by Locke’s ideas, he focused his early plays on folk experience in the South, but over time his plays came to have more of an educational or encouraging message.
The Chip Woman’s Fortune was picked up by the Ethiopian Art Theater of Chicago (a “black” company organized by white director Raymond O’Neil), and, when the troupe played a season...